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O’Donnell, M.E., Kurth, I. (2013). Machinery of DNA Replication. In: Roberts, G.C.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16712-6_435
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